Bowling games



Sept. 26, 1961 s. ALU

BOWLING GAMES Filed June 10, 1959 6 l Jl United States Patent C3,001,794 BOWLING GAMES Salvatore Alu, Bronx, N.Y., assignor to GothamPressed Steel Corporation Filed June 10, 1959, Ser. No. 819,437 1 Claim.(Cl. 273-127) 'I'he object of the present invention is to provide abowling toy of simple construction and by which, without any appliedresetting mechanism, the bowling pins may be re-set simply by raising -acarrier plate, and then restoring it to initial position.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

FIG. l is a plan view of the structure;

FIG. 2 is a view in front elevation;

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary side elevation showing the manner of pivotalsupport for the carrier plate, the plate being in horizontal position;

FIG. 4 is `a view similar to FIG. 3, showing the carrier plate invertical position;

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view, in sectional elevation, showing one of theweighted pins with its pivotal connection with the carrier plate, thepin being in position to be struck by a bowling ball; and

FIG. 6 is a fragmentary section on the line 6 6, FIG. 1.

Referring to the drawings, at 1 is shown a flat support, preferably ofmetal, which will lie upon the door, the support having an upwardlydirected back stop 2 and side stops 3, so that when a bowling ball isthrown toward and past the pins, it will strike the back stop and berepulsed backwardly toward the front of support 1.

Resting on support 1 and riveted or otherwise secured to side stopmembers 3, are two vertical arms 4 which carry a top cross bar 5 bymeans of pivot studs 6.

Riveted or otherwise secured to cross bar 5 is a carrier plate 7,preferably wedge shape in form, with its narrow area projectedforwardly. This plate is formed with slots as shown at '8, FIG. 5, lforthe passage of arms 9 which are pivotally held in position on carrierplate 7 by means of pivot rods 10. Each arm at its top carries a weight11, and at its bottom each arm carries a replica of a bowling pin 12.

In the operation of the bowling pin, a ball rolled into contact with oneor more pins will rock the pin or pins ice' 12 rearwardly, so that theweight or weights 11 will be swung from the position of the weight inFIG. 5 to the left and until the gravitational action will cause theweight to drop down on the carrier plate 7', holding the pin or pinsupwardly.

When the player has finished his number of ball actions with respect toa given set up of the pins, those which have been struck and heldupwardly by the weights 11 will be restored to operative position bymanually raising plate 7 upwardly to approximately vertical position,which will gravitationally move arms 9 to the position of FIG. 5. Thecarrier plate is then moved down to initial position.

It will be understood that various modications will be made in the formand arrangement of the elements illustrated in the embodiment Withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I now claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is as follows:

In a bowling game, a support, a plate held in elevated position on saidsupport, and formed with a plurality of transverse rows of apertures,said plate lying normally in horizontal position, means pivotallyconnecting said plate to the support, a plurality of rows of bowling pinreplicas under said Iplate, a lever arm connected to the top end of eachof said bowling pin replicas, said lever arm having a rearwardlyextending upwardly inclined area which directly passes through one ofsaid apertures, and which inclined area merges into a second area,extending upwardly above the plate, said second area carrying a weightat its end, the center of gravity of the bowling pin replica andconnected lever and weight, in each case, being midway between thebowling pin replica and the Weighted upstanding area of the lever, apivotal connection between the plate and the iirst named area of thelever, and at the said center off gravity, and the weight of the lever,with its applied weight, at its area extending rearwardly of the saidpivotal connection with the plate, being greater than the weight of thebowling pin replica and that part of the lever extending forwardly ofsaid pivotal connection.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,003,249 Gentle Sept. 12, 1911 2,141,958 Ruberti Dec. 27, 19382,528,560 Strong --..---.....f-..- NOV. 7, 1950

